intriguing Snooker moments that will make your face jiggle
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IdleRich
IdleRich
Yeah his interview yesterday went viral cos someone asked how come he was still one of the best players after 26 years and he went off on one about how everyone who has come through lately is barely amateur standard.
True - I remember Davis was the greatest imaginable and then you got Hendry who was even better, and then John Higgins, Williams, Ronnie, all great talents and it looked as though it would just keep improving... but then no-one came along who was any good at all.
In snooker you can play until 100 in theory... it was a golden age and it carries on as if Messi and Ronaldo would be the best players until an actually better player came along, not fade away gracefully as will (surely eventually) happen.
True - I remember Davis was the greatest imaginable and then you got Hendry who was even better, and then John Higgins, Williams, Ronnie, all great talents and it looked as though it would just keep improving... but then no-one came along who was any good at all.
In snooker you can play until 100 in theory... it was a golden age and it carries on as if Messi and Ronaldo would be the best players until an actually better player came along, not fade away gracefully as will (surely eventually) happen.
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Because it's a phallic game?
IdleRich
IdleRich
It's strange though that you had the characters - Alex Higgins, that guy who used to drink a hundred pints a day etc - and then they got out-evolved by the professionals and fair play they were really really good at snooker... but now you have neither.
I don't know I don't watch it but I trust O'Sullivan on that point.
I don't know I don't watch it but I trust O'Sullivan on that point.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Highest personal break was 28.
Snooker halls are alright for a wind down, ideally with people who can at least play pool. Reminds me of chipping in with mates for the light, doubles only. Wonky cues. Microwaved pasties and a half pint of coke. John Player Special lung monster cigs burning away everywhere, leaving a plane of smog under the glow of each table. Chipping in for a 16th of draw for after, then ringing your two possible contacts from the phone in the foyer. Go back to the table and miss every sitter. Get sledged. Get told off for noise, then thrown out and banned. Sorted.
Snooker halls are alright for a wind down, ideally with people who can at least play pool. Reminds me of chipping in with mates for the light, doubles only. Wonky cues. Microwaved pasties and a half pint of coke. John Player Special lung monster cigs burning away everywhere, leaving a plane of smog under the glow of each table. Chipping in for a 16th of draw for after, then ringing your two possible contacts from the phone in the foyer. Go back to the table and miss every sitter. Get sledged. Get told off for noise, then thrown out and banned. Sorted.
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Shame it wasn't 23.